Number 777, June 29, 2014Over a fairly long lifetime, so far, Ihave come to the sobering realizationthat all that leftists, communists,socialists, Democrats can do ... allthey ever think about is killing.

Economic Genocideby L. Neil Smith
What now seems like a lifetime ago, back in the early 1970s, I
asked a colleague (who knew about such things) a somewhat complicated question.
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The Social Utility of Firearmsby C.D. Michel
Looking down the wrong end of a telescope gives you an entirely mistaken
perspective on the universe. The Los Angeles Daily News allowed Tim Rutten to publish
an opinion piece (The dangerous illusion of Americans and their guns, May 30, 2014)
that displayed just such an inverted perspective on the topic of the social utility of guns
in American society.
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Plain Words about "Islamist Extremism"by Sean Gabb
According to The Daily Telegraph, "[o]ne of the most serious
challenges facing [England] is that of tackling religious extremism." Apparently, some of
the Moslems here are attempting "to seal Islamic communities off hermetically from the
rest of society." They are taking over state schools in the areas where they are settled,
and imposing on them their own ideas of curriculum and behaviour. Girls are made to sit
at the back of the class. Evolution is not taught. Christmas and Easter are not celebrated.
Instead, there is fasting during Ramadan, and the call to prayer sounds through the playground.
We are all supposed to think this very wicked and in need of action by the British State.
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Ares Chapter One: Julie Segoviaby L. Neil Smith
Julie waited in the dark at the top of the stairs, surprised her
heart wasn't pounding harder. In minutes she was going to do something that couldn't
be undone—something that needed doing, nonetheless. She'd always avoided doing
what couldn't be undone, whenever it was possible.
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Neale's Weekly Gun Rant Volume 6-29-2014by Neale Osborn
Tis the custom in these here parts to start off with one from
Mama Liberty. But I ain't gonna do that, pilgrim. I'm gonna start off with TWO by
Mama Liberty. Because I've got'em! Well, one is BY her, and one recommended by her.
First, her piece (originally in JPFO's e-zine) If you are not a member of JPFO, what
the hell is keeping you? One of the finest pro-gun-rights organizations out there!
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L. Neil Smith personally recommends Climate Depotas the best general source of infomation on the subject.

EDITORIAL MATTERS

This is awfully... awful:

If The Clintons Are Worth 50 Million, Why Do They
Get Nearly A Million A Year From The Taxpayers?by Michael Snyder
Since leaving the White House, the Clintons have
earned at least 100 million dollars and currently
have a net worth of up to 50 million dollars. So
why in the world do the taxpayers need to give
Bill Clinton $944,000 to fund his extravagant
lifestyle in 2014? If ordinary Americans truly
understood how much money many former politicians
are being handed every year they would go bananas.
According to a Congressional Research Service
report that was published earlier this year, the
federal government has given a total of nearly
16 million dollars to Bill Clinton since 2001.
Each one of those dollars is a dollar that some
U.S. taxpayer worked really hard for or that we
had to borrow. Yes, we don't want our former
presidents to go broke for a whole bunch of
reasons, but it is absolutely absurd that we
are showering them with millions upon millions
of dollars.
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And anyone paying attention already knows this,
but just in case:

Leftists Can't Handle the Truthby John C. Wright
It is crucial to the worldview and self esteem
of the Left that they regard themselves, despite
all evidence to the contrary, as being morally
and intellectually superior to their honorable
opposition on the Right. A century long
nightmare of the mass deaths, wars, broken lives,
mass thefts, mass addiction to lying propaganda,
and spiritual chaos spread by this political
neurosis makes the act of total mental dishonesty
needed to maintain this stance of presumptive
intellectual superiority both difficult and
comical to maintain, yet by heroic effort the
Left manages to do so....

The prime evidence of their shamelessness is
in the attitude, present in all writings of the
Left that venture into philosophical areas, of
disdain and dismissal toward the truth. I do not
mean that they are untruthful. They are, but
that is a side effect. I mean that on a
fundamental and philosophical level, there is
no place in their worldview for the concept
that truth is objective.
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And this is just fascinating:

Visualizing Algorithmsby Mike Bostock
Algorithms are a fascinating use case for
visualization. To visualize an algorithm, we
don't merely fit data to a chart; there is no
primary dataset. Instead there are logical
rules that describe behavior. This may be why
algorithm visualizations are so unusual, as
designers experiment with novel forms to better
communicate. This is reason enough to study
them.

But algorithms are also a reminder that
visualization is more than a tool for finding
patterns in data. Visualization leverages the
human visual system to augment human intellect:
we can use it to better understand these
important abstract processes, and perhaps other
things, too.
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An let me wish all of you a pleasant 4th of July
(or 2nd of July, depending)!

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